Aaron Oldenburg is a game designer and new media artist whose primary interest is in game rules as an expressive medium. His interactive work has exhibited at art.tech in San Francisco, SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, and VIDEOKILLS in Berlin. He received his MFA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and is an Assistant Professor at University of Baltimore's Simulation and Digital Entertainment program. In October 2003 he finished two years as an HIV Health Extension Agent for the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa.